Venezuelan streets fill with protesters opposing Maduro claim of election victory
Caracas, Venezuela Reuters Protesters took to streets throughout Venezuela on Tuesday, waving flags and demanding President Nicolas Maduro acknowledge he lost Sunday’s election to an opposition that says they clinched a landslide victory. The protests, which the government denounced as an attempted “coup,” began after the election board declared on Monday that Maduro had won […]
Polls begin to close in highly charged Venezuela election
Updated: 10am, 29th July, 2024 (AEST) Caracas, Venezuela Reuters Polls began to close on Sunday in Venezuela’s most consequential election in a quarter-century of socialist party rule, with President Nicolas Maduro confident of victory even as the opposition has attracted impassioned support and warned of possible irregularities. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been the […]
Venezuela: As the country heads for 28th July presidential election, what does the religious landscape look like?
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on religious landscape in the South American country…
In Venezuela, hunger stalks presidential election
Maracaibo, Venezuela Reuters Carolina Leal used to support socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and, before that, his predecessor Hugo Chavez. But now Leal, founder of the ‘Feeding a Dream’ charity, spends her days feeding hungry and sometimes malnourished children in Maracaibo, in Venezuela’s oil-rich state of Zulia. And now she is not so sure. People […]